Whole word search

I am trying to write a select statement, with a where clause that can search for whole words only. Example, if I do a select statement with where clause like:
where column like '%war%', I want to be able to return rows:
World war.
war of the worlds
this war is bad
but NOT
software
ware
wars
wards...
Is this possible in SQL without the use of Oracle text, if not, how can I use Oracle text or regular expressions to do so?
Thanks in advance,
Sam

This works in 9i
with txt as
(select 'war of the worlds' srch from dual
union all
select 'software' from dual
union all
select 'This is the war' from dual
union all
select 'wards' from dual
select * from txt
where srch like '% war%' or srch like '% war %' or srch >like 'war %'It will not work for the value 'war'
.

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> I'm enhancing the verity search on a project I'm working
on, removing the
> operator words (as well as others) from search criteria
before passing it
> to
> the verity engine. The only problem I'm having so far is
stripping out the
> whole words "AND", "OR", and "NOT" from user-specified
search criteria. I
> obviously want to do it only in cases where "AND", "OR",
and/or "NOT" are
> the
> whole word, and not replace things like "hand",
"organization", and
> "notingham". It's probably so simple, but I'm a bit
stumped.
>
> While I'm here, has anyone developed anything to enhance
verity results,
> or
> know of a resource I could look into further?
>

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